Intriguing item on auction - Oil can: From a U-boot?

[gerwalk]

[color=#000000]This auction is currently held in Argentina. "Nazi" Oil can auction

The seller says that the can or barrel was found in a beach in Patagonia many years ago.
There are four photos showing the top of the can and the side. On the side is a svastika cross, but inverted. On the top some words in spanish can be read]

[chips]

While it is possible that

While it is possible that could be a Nazi oil can,I don't think it is a Nazi oil can. Before the Nazi party "appropriated" the it, the swastika was used by many companies in their advertising, and was often featured on their products. The city of Glendale, CA has some 1920's era cast iron street lights with swastikas cast into the base. Several companies had swastikas on their checks, envelopes, catalogs , etc. ASEA used a swastika as a logo until the merged with Brown Boveri. The swastika is considered a good luck symbol in many cultures and religions - Navajo Indians, Buddism, etc.

If that can really is a German WWII can, I think the swastika would be "inverted" and set on the diagonal axis.

[gerwalk]

While it is possible that

While it is possible that could be a Nazi oil can,I don't think it is a Nazi oil can. Before the Nazi party "appropriated" the it, the swastika was used by many companies in their advertising, and was often featured on their products. The city of Glendale, CA has some 1920's era cast iron street lights with swastikas cast into the base. Several companies had swastikas on their checks, envelopes, catalogs , etc. ASEA used a swastika as a logo until the merged with Brown Boveri. The swastika is considered a good luck symbol in many cultures and religions - Navajo Indians, Buddism, etc.

If that can really is a German WWII can, I think the swastika would be "inverted" and set on the diagonal axis.

Thanks Chips. That's good info. Though the Shell Mex company started operations at such in the 30s when the Nazis were already in power and using the svastika for everything. The good luck svastika is a good one (more considering the direction of the cross) What about Finland? they use the cross as is depicted in the can.

[gerwalk]

One of the questions to

[color=#000000]One of the questions to the seller from an antique collector referes that the inverted swastika symbol was used before the war by Shell Mex for it's Energina products line. It was changed for the "shell" symbol when the swastika became a bad publicity around the world... So]